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Showing the Incident Site and Discussing Culled Cows

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BUYER BEWARE! Lessons on a farm sometimes cost more than money!

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What happens here

The farmer moves to the location of the incident, showing his other cows, including the presumed mother of the deceased calf. He points out the water tote where the calf was found dead. He then raises a critical discussion point about 'cull cows' often found at livestock auctions. He explains that these cows might have underlying issues such as difficulties with birth, challenges in raising their offspring, or possessing bad temperaments. He speculates that the mother cow he acquired from the auction might have been a cull, potentially paired with a different calf than her own, as she shows an unusual lack of distress over the lost calf. This is presented as a significant lesson for himself and other farmers.

Goal: The farmer shows the water troughs where the calf died and discusses the potential issues with buying 'cull cows' from livestock auctions.

Tools and materials

  • Water Trough (Galvanized metal)
  • Water Trough (Rubberized plastic)

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I'm trying to figure out the best way for me to approach this to let you guys know we've lost our youngest calf our youngest calf got hung up in the water trough which absolutely makes no sense whatsoever it just absolutely makes no sense we're gonna take you over there we're gonna show you this so if you don't want to see this kind of stuff this is real life this is real farm this is what's going on and it's life and death no other place on earth is more life and death than here on the farm life death injury equipment all that stuff so this is just part of it and I want you guys to learn from me and to learn from I wouldn't really call it a mistake I would just say it was a mistake on the part of the baby cow it was a very odd fluke incident I don't really get it I honestly don't get it but again no better place to teach children to teach you and I as adults to teach anyone about you know life and death what's going on real life real death real farming this is it so we'll take you over here and show you what happened even the cows are curious they're they're smelling the smell of the the baby yep yep yep yep yep yep yep yep get back get back yep yep so this is mama this is our first cow that we bought we bought mama as a cow-calf pair and Mama's baby is inside the water tote the calf is probably somewhere in the neighborhood of about 150 to 200 pound calf the age of that calf is somewhere near has to be near the two two and a half month range and when we first got momma and calf from the auction mama and calf did well they got here and I never ever saw the baby cow who's in this tote right here we put another tote on top of it so that the cows stayed out of it but they just didn't seem right the calf didn't seem right and this is something that needs to be a lesson to you guys as well as myself beware the cows that you buy at a I've stock auction oftentimes these cows that you see at a livestock auction are cull cows cull cows meaning they have trouble with birth they have trouble with raising their babies they're a high-maintenance cow they're grumpy cow they're something with a bad temperament that can hurt you and or maybe they got paired up with the young calf that actually was not that cow was not from that cow in other words I don't think the cow we bought from the sale is the mama of the cow that's in here I'll take you over here and show you so what had happened was let's just go over I don't want to lose animals on our farm and you'll never meet…

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